Docker Contracts in London

Docker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 62 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -12
Contract jobs citing Docker 580 640 1,241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.79% 3.66% 4.87%
As % of the System Software category 43.38% 35.67% 42.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 471 915
10th Percentile £406 £413 £463
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £640
Median % change year-on-year - -14.06% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £823
England median daily rate £534 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.00% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £49.90 £73.95
25th Percentile - £54.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £81.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.31% +4.32%
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £91.25
England median hourly rate £78.70 £72.75 £74.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% -1.69% +43.20%

All System Software Skills
London

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,337 1,794 2,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 10.27% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,296 2,133
10th Percentile £276 £231 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £763 £725 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 34
10th Percentile £23.62 £17.14 £16.98
25th Percentile £25.84 £20.50 £25.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -62.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £44.63 £49.23 £88.50
England median hourly rate £28.46 £22.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +29.34% -57.80% +180.65%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in London

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in London.

Daily rate trend for Docker in London

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in London

Docker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Docker in London.

Hourly rate trend for Docker in London

Docker
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -2 65 £550 -8.33% 81
South London +2 23 £485 -3.00% 9
West London -1 5 £405 -4.82% 184
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (7.93%) Apache Spark
2 37 (6.38%) Apache
3 28 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (3.97%) Confluence
5 17 (2.93%) nginx
6 4 (0.69%) Camunda
6 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Sketch
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Endur
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 354 (61.03%) AWS
2 181 (31.21%) Azure
3 99 (17.07%) GCP
4 80 (13.79%) Serverless
5 76 (13.10%) GitHub
6 54 (9.31%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (8.79%) OpenShift
8 49 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (6.90%) Amazon S3
12 31 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (4.83%) dbt
15 18 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (3.10%) IaaS
16 17 (2.93%) PaaS
17 16 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.48%) DNS
2 19 (3.28%) Firewall
3 17 (2.93%) HTTP
3 17 (2.93%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.76%) VPN
5 10 (1.72%) Internet
6 8 (1.38%) DHCP
7 7 (1.21%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.86%) Network Security
9 3 (0.52%) LAN
9 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.52%) SMS
10 2 (0.34%) SSH
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
11 1 (0.17%) Broadband
11 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.17%) IPsec
11 1 (0.17%) IPv4
11 1 (0.17%) IPv6
11 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 44 (7.59%) Relational Database
3 35 (6.03%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
6 24 (4.14%) MySQL
6 24 (4.14%) Redis
7 23 (3.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 23 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (3.79%) Apache Arrow
8 22 (3.79%) Apache Ignite
8 22 (3.79%) Dremio
9 21 (3.62%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.76%) Data Lake
11 15 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (2.24%) DynamoDB
13 12 (2.07%) Big Data
14 11 (1.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 156 (26.90%) Jenkins
2 92 (15.86%) Git
3 73 (12.59%) GitLab
4 39 (6.72%) JIRA
5 34 (5.86%) JUnit
6 30 (5.17%) Maven
7 29 (5.00%) Artifactory
8 24 (4.14%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.97%) Mockito
10 22 (3.79%) Gradle
11 16 (2.76%) Liquibase
12 14 (2.41%) Cucumber
13 13 (2.24%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.72%) IntelliJ
15 10 (1.72%) MLflow
16 8 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (1.38%) Postman
17 7 (1.21%) CircleCI
17 7 (1.21%) REST Assured
General
1 159 (27.41%) Finance
2 123 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.28%) Banking
4 62 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 55 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (7.59%) Investment Banking
7 30 (5.17%) Front Office
8 27 (4.66%) Marketing
9 18 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.59%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.24%) Electronics
11 13 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.21%) Law
15 6 (1.03%) Publishing
16 5 (0.86%) Billing
17 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.69%) Military
17 4 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 231 (39.83%) Developer
2 113 (19.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (15.69%) Senior
4 60 (10.34%) Python Developer
5 57 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
6 55 (9.48%) Java Developer
7 46 (7.93%) AWS DevOps
8 43 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 42 (7.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 42 (7.24%) Data Engineer
10 39 (6.72%) Architect
11 35 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (6.03%) Python Engineer
12 32 (5.52%) Lead
13 27 (4.66%) Software Engineer
14 25 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.97%) .NET Developer
16 22 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (3.28%) Gen AI Developer
17 19 (3.28%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (21.38%) Kafka
2 102 (17.59%) React
3 97 (16.72%) Spring
4 78 (13.45%) Spring Boot
5 69 (11.90%) .NET
6 52 (8.97%) FastAPI
6 52 (8.97%) Node.js
7 44 (7.59%) REST
7 44 (7.59%) RESTful
8 42 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 38 (6.55%) HTML
10 33 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (5.52%) J2EE
12 30 (5.17%) Django
13 28 (4.83%) PySpark
14 26 (4.48%) CSS
15 23 (3.97%) Swagger
16 22 (3.79%) Pandas
17 21 (3.62%) .NET Framework
17 21 (3.62%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.28%) Hedge funds
4 18 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.72%) PKI
8 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.21%) Derivative
10 7 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 116 (20.00%) Linux
2 28 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (4.83%) Unix
3 23 (3.97%) Windows
4 13 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.21%) CentOS
6 6 (1.03%) Rocky
7 4 (0.69%) VMS
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.52%) SUSE
8 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (58.97%) CI/CD
2 299 (51.55%) DevOps
3 245 (42.24%) Containerisation
4 197 (33.97%) Agile
5 164 (28.28%) Microservices
6 137 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 132 (22.76%) Software Engineering
8 109 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (11.03%) TDD
11 63 (10.86%) Data Engineering
12 60 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
13 58 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
14 57 (9.83%) Test Automation
15 55 (9.48%) Machine Learning
16 53 (9.14%) Event-Driven
17 52 (8.97%) Open Source
18 50 (8.62%) High Availability
19 49 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
20 48 (8.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 286 (49.31%) Python
2 200 (34.48%) Java
3 135 (23.28%) SQL
4 81 (13.97%) JavaScript
5 78 (13.45%) TypeScript
6 77 (13.28%) C#
7 66 (11.38%) Bash
7 66 (11.38%) Go
8 32 (5.52%) PowerShell
9 31 (5.34%) C++
10 29 (5.00%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.59%) Rust
12 13 (2.24%) Bicep
13 12 (2.07%) Kotlin
13 12 (2.07%) Perl
14 11 (1.90%) RPG
14 11 (1.90%) RPG IV
15 8 (1.38%) Ruby
15 8 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 139 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.55%) Degree
4 20 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.86%) PhD
11 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.52%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.34%) RHCE
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.03%) QA
2 17 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.90%) GDPR
4 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.34%) WCAG
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
10 1 (0.17%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) NIST
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.52%) Lustre
3 3 (0.52%) Platform Symphony
3 3 (0.52%) vCloud
3 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (0.52%) vSphere
4 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.17%) Ceph
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.17%) Postfix
5 1 (0.17%) RACF
5 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 454 (78.28%) Kubernetes
2 214 (36.90%) Terraform
3 109 (18.79%) Ansible
4 53 (9.14%) Grafana
5 44 (7.59%) Prometheus
6 34 (5.86%) Puppet
7 24 (4.14%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.59%) Kibana
9 9 (1.55%) Packer
9 9 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.38%) Consul
11 7 (1.21%) Istio
11 7 (1.21%) Podman
12 6 (1.03%) Argo
12 6 (1.03%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (0.69%) logstash
13 4 (0.69%) Nagios
14 3 (0.52%) Control-M
14 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (6.21%) Google
2 29 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 26 (4.48%) Oracle
3 26 (4.48%) Splunk
4 22 (3.79%) Microsoft
5 19 (3.28%) Databricks
6 15 (2.59%) VMware
7 13 (2.24%) SAP
8 11 (1.90%) TIBCO
9 10 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.55%) IBM
11 5 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.86%) Solace
12 4 (0.69%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.69%) Cisco
12 4 (0.69%) Dataiku
12 4 (0.69%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.52%) Qualys
13 3 (0.52%) Wallstreet Suite